Mahlon Dickerson

Mahlon Dickerson (17 April 1770-5 October 1853) was Governor of New Jersey from 26 October 1815 to 1 February 1817 (succeeding William Kennedy and preceding Isaac Halstead Williamson), a US Senator from 4 March 1817 to 30 January 1829 (succeeding John Condit and preceding Theodore Frelinghuysen) and from 30 January 1829 to 3 March 1833 (succeeding Ephraim Bateman and preceding Samuel L. Southard), and a Secretary of the Navy from 1 July 1834 to 30 June 1838 (succeeding Levi Woodbury and preceding James Kirke Paulding). He was a Democratic-Republican and a Democrat.

Biography
Mahlon Dickerson was born in Hanover Township, New Jersey in 1770, and he became a lawyer in 1793. He served as a private during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion, and he went on to practice in Pennsylvania courts, serving as Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1808 to 1809. Dickerson later returned to New Jersey, where he served as Governor from 1815 to 1817 and as a US Senator from 1817 to 1833. He went on to serve as Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, and he died in 1853.